Rebel to Redeemed…Sharing HIS Kind of Love
Samuel Kaboo Morris was a Liberian prince who converted to Christianity at around the age of 14. He was born in 1873 Liberia. Little is known about his early life, other than he was the oldest son of the tribal chief. He was captured when his tribe was attacked by the Grebos when he was fourteen. He was used as […]
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Father Damien brought the message of Christ to the people of Hawaii as he worked with the lepers there. He is known as the Apostle of the Lepers. He was born Jozef De Veuster on January 3, 1840 in Tremelo, Brabant, Belgium. He was the youngest of seven children born to Joannes Franciscus and Anne-Catherine Wouters De Veuster. Instead […]
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Dante Alighieri is considered one of the finest poets Italy ever produced, one of the greatest poets of world literature and the “Father of the Italian language”. Dante Alighieri was born around 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was the son of Alaghiero and Bella, who died when he was about ten years old. At the age of 12, he was […]
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Luther Rice was a missionary who was vital in establishing the Southern Baptist Convention. Luther Rice was born on March 25, 1783 in Northborough, Massachusetts. He was the son of Amos and Sarah Graves Rice. While at Williams College, he became part of a group known as “the Brethern”. He sailed alongside missionary Adoniram Judson to Calcutta, India on February […]
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Adoniram Judson was the first foreign missionary sent from the United States. Judson was born on August 7, 1788 in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Adoniram and Abigail Brown Judson. He grew up hearing about and learning about Christ from his congregational minister father. At the age of nineteen, he graduated valedictorian from College of Rhode […]
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Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was a Luthern missionary to the Batak in Sumatra. He was born in the Nordstrand peninsula on February 6, 1834. In 1846, a horse cart rolled over his legs and crushed them. The doctors said he would never walk again, but he prayed for recovery and three years later he was able to walk again. He […]
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Julian of Norwich was a Christian mystic and theologian. Her Revelations of Divine Love, written around 1395, is the first book in the English language known to have been written by a woman. Little is known about her life. She is believed to have been born around November 8, 1342, based on her writings. While Julian was a common […]
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Gladys May Aylward was a Christian missionary to China. Her story became well known from the book, The Small Woman by Alan Burgess and movie, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, written and made about her in the late 1950s. Gladys Aylward was born on February 24, 1902 in North London, England. She was the daughter of Thomas and […]
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Robert Jermain Thomas was a Welsh Protestant Christian missionary to China. He was born around 1839 in Llanover, Wales. His father was a non-conformist minister and he would later follow in his footsteps. He married Caroline Godfrey in 1863, and she died of a miscarriage two years later. She is said to have died only “four months after their arrival […]
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Rain beat down on us that spring evening in 1987, but we did not care. We opened our umbrellas and held them high. Nothing would deter us from having the opportunity to sit in the choir bleachers at Williams Brice Stadium for those eight evenings Billy Graham was holding his crusades. We arrived early each evening, as Cliff Barrow […]
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Sadhu Sundar Singh into a Sikh family in northern India on September 3, 1889. As a child, his mother took him to a holy man where he learned English and about God. But, life changed for him when he turned fourteen and his mother died. He was pitched into a world of violence and took his anger out on […]
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Nicolaus Zinzendorf was a major figure of the 18th Century protestantism. He was born on May 26, 1700 in Dresden, Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire {modern day Austria}. He was born to a noble family and his great-grandfather was made an Imperial Count. But, his grandfather, chose to emigrate to Franconia rather than convert to Catholocism. His father was […]
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Hans Poulsen Egede, a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary, is known as the Apostle of Greenland. Hans Egede was born on January 31, 1686 to a civil servant in Harstad, Norway. His uncle was a clergyman in the Lutheran Church, who taught him and his grandfather was a vicar in southern Zealand, Denmark. In 1704, he entered the University of Copenhagen where […]
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Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus {Jesuits} and became its first Superior General. He was born Íñigo López de Loyola in Gipuzkoa, Basque County, Spain around October 23, 1491. His baptisimal name of Íñigo was after St. Enecus. He was the youngest of thirteen children and his mother died shortly after his birth. He was born into a […]
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Franz Jägerstätter is a more modern day martyr. He strongly objected to the Nazi’s and all they stood for and stood directly up to them. Franz Jägerstätter was born on May 20, 1907 in Sankt Radegund, Austria-Hungary. He was the illegitimate child of Rosalia Huber, a chambermaid, and Franz Bachmeier, a farmer. His grandmother, Elisabeth Huber, cared for him […]
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In school, we at least heard of Joan of Arc, but did we really know what she was martyred for? Joan was born to Jacques and Isabelle Romee d’Arc in the French village of Domremy around January 6, 1412. She was born at a time of great uncertainty in the French empire. The Hundred Years’ War had begun in […]
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“No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.” Those were the words uttered by Justin Martyr when asked to denounce his faith and make a sacrifice to the Roman gods. Justin was born in Flavia Neapolis, a Roman city, around 100 A.D.. He probably lived a traditional Roman life and we know he was raised by […]
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Constantine the Great is credited with bringing Christianity throughout the Roman Empire, which spread throughout much of the known world at the time. When Jesus was crucified, the Roman empire ruled a large portion of the then known world, including the Holy Land {where Jesus lived}. Historians say the first recorded official persecution of Christians on behalf of the […]
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John of the Cross was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a friar, and priest and canonized a saint. He was born Juan de Yepes y Álvarez in 1542 Fontiveros, Ávila, Spain. He was the son of Gonzalo and Catalina, but his father died when he was around three years old. He attended school with other poor and orphaned children. […]
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Saint Margaret of Scotland, a Scottish Queen, seems like an unlikely person for the Heroes of Faith. She is described as a pious Roman Catholic and her charitable works brought her great renown. Margaret was born around 1045 while in exile in Hungary. She was the daughter of Edward the Exile and his wife, Agatha. Margaret grew up in […]
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